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This article is going to cover the usage of pivot tables and charts with Calc LibreOffice 3.6 using statistics on death causes in Germany from 1980 to 2010 – categorizing gender and 18 age groups. I am tempted to make this a data labeled article – but as the meaningfulness of absolute numbers regarding a population whose age distribution is changing over time is very restricted I won’t (did I leave out commas here?). As a matter of fact I covered fatalities caused by viral hepatitis in a previous article in more detail – I use this cause of death also in this post.

The German Federal Office of Statistics (Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland) maintains a web site called GENESIS which offers a huge amount of statistics available with a few mouse clicks. Unfortunately the web site is only offered in German language and a tad clumsy to use. But still, a wide variety of topics regarding German economics, society and politics is covered – which makes this source indispensable.

I wrote this PHP script to count the character combinations for a previous post. This script is covering more functionality than I acutally used for the article. First I was fetching web-sites – using a service from www.alchemyapi.com which extracts the actual text information from a site. But after figuring that it was a bit tricky to choose a halfway representative set of web sites for a language, I took a short cut and just evaluated a big text file containing a classic novel for each language.